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There are a number of ways you can support us in our fight against racial intolerance through raising awareness of Jewish history and culture.

We are looking for volunteer regional coordinators to organise regular meetings of supporters so that they can learn about Jewishness and Israel affairs.

Contact us to find out whether your region has a coordinator, and if you’re up for it, we can have a discussion about your background and relevant skill sets. We may also need to talk to some referees.

We are also currently raising funds toward:

Holocaust Survivor Speaking Tours: With the Jewish Federation, we are supporting the annual speaking tour of a Holocaust Survivor from Israel. In this way New Zealand high school students can interact first hand with a survivor, bringing history to life.

Holocaust Education Teaching Resources designed for New Zealanders: A NCEA level professional development course for high school teachers on how to teach constructive ethics from the history of the Holocaust. Why is such a course required? Recently a number of Jewish families withdrew their children from a course on the Holocaust after a well-meaning but misguided teacher asked the children to plan how they would have assassinated Hitler if they had had the opportunity, as a homework assignment. We believe more constructive ethical lessons can be drawn from the Holocaust and the story of the Jewish people.

Fighting Christian Anti-Semitism: Creating a library of bible study courses for Christians to re-acquaint them with the Hebraic roots of their faith.

A Marquee speaker program. We would like to introduce a colloborative program whereby Marquee speakers from the Jewish world could carry out an Australasian lecture tour, covering issues relating to aspects of Jewish society that would be relevant to the rest of the world. A marquee speaker could be R Jonathan Sachs, Alan Dershowitz or Ehud Barak.

Fighting anti-semitism: The recent conflict between Israel and Gaza reminds us of the connection between Anti-Semitism and the Middle East conflict. Anti-Semitism is gathering momentum in Europe once more. The need is great if history is not to be repeated.

Anti-Semitism Monitor: We would like to put together a research instrument that can be repeated periodically to gauge public attitudes toward Jews and Israel in New Zealand. We fully intend to structure the research tool to enable the results to be benchmarked with other similar studies conducted abroad.

Middle East Conflict 101 booklets: The ME Conflict is complex and difficult to understand. What’s needed is a series of booklets pitched at a reading age of 12.

We are a registered charity under the Charities Act 2005 (No. CC43880). If you are a New Zealand tax payer, your donations are tax deductible. Leave us your details and we will ensure a receipt is sent promptly to you.

You can make a donation by electronic funds transfer or via Paypal:

Bank: Bank of New Zealand

Account Name: NZ Friends of Israel Association Inc

Account Number: 02 0820 0569411 000

Code: Donation

Reference: Your initials and surname

Be sure to email us your contact details if you wish to receive a tax receipt: contact@nzfoi.org.

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